I want to say I’m sorry to the ATU 757 members. When I first started
my blog, I was attacking drivers. I want to express my sincerest
apologies for doing that. That was wrong. The drivers aren’t the
problem, it’s the General Liar Neil McFarlane who is running the company
into the ground.
Again, I’m sorry for my actions a year ago. I will not let that happen again.

But Mary Jo Pullen-Hughes, who estimates she has made about 75,000
phone calls to public officials, bureaucrats and journalists over the
last two decades, isn't easily discouraged.
When she phoned receptionists at both departments, the federal
government pushed to have her prosecuted for telephonic harassment.

Of course Trimet would have non of that. Imagine the nerve of tax payers expecting to get anything free from a tax payer funded agency. The nerve of the public. You want free stuff get a gubmint job and you get a piece of the pork, regular citizens, eat shit.

“TriMet’s multi-million dollar radio system continues to be plagued with serious problems,” reports Amalgamated Transit Union President Bruce Hansen. Yesterday, October 30th, Bus 2808 was at the intersection of 185th and SW Farmington Road. The time was approximately 11:10 a.m. A horrified bus operator watched as an automobile struck a pedestrian. It was obvious that the pedestrian was seriously injured. The bus operator quickly tried to summon assistance by punching the bus’s emergency alarm.

BTW: The Sherpa app doesn't show your ticket at all once it expires. I
bet we're going to see people who expire in-route getting tickets
unnecessarily because of this. Even worse, those people might think
they're actually in violation when they're not.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Sending FOUR police officers
to arrest a nonviolent blogger accused of harassment at his place of
employment is simply the long arm of the Police State showing its
clumsy, puppet-stringed hand.
Ask yourself, is this the response you’d get from the police if you
told them someone was sending you too many texts asking you hard,
unthreatening questions about your public conduct? You might be told to
get a new phone number and that these cases seldom go anywhere – unless
you’re connected to power.
The real threat activists, like Lane, make is when they shine a light
on unethical and corrupt relationships and practices that shovel
taxpayer money into the pockets of developers (and back to politicians)
while everyone else gets greased ($10M annually to local police forces).
Transit riders get greased in this process too, but not to their
benefit.
Lane has been targeted by TriMet for reprisal. When Lane exposed
himself to liability via texting, TriMet used its privileged connections
to the prosecutor and police to bring the hammer down. The response to
Lane was not designed to correct behavior but to punish, to limit Lane’s
future opportunities in life, and send the usual message to activists:
sit down and shut up, or else. That’s what happens in a Police State
when you threaten the status quo as established by the elites, the
powerful and the wealthy.

During my 15 years at Trimet I met some remarkable people. There were two executives that were working at Trimet while I did and I admire both of them. My favorite was Peggy Hansen, and my second was Steve Banta. Funny how fast Trimet plunged straight down the hill when they both departed.Peggy has come out to express support for Lane, it's typical Peggy, she was never afraid to speak her mind .

It's amazingly arrogant for them to take it
to such extremes; wrong on many fronts: they don't get to decide who is
or is not a "real journalist", for starters. And the claim of text
messages being "harassment" is really stupid. She may have asked the
blogger to stop contacting her, but she can't do that: her freakin' job
is communicating with journalists and the general public. In her
position, claims of harassment apply only to fellow employees. Like if
McFarlane started send her wiener shots, or something. They really blew
it on this one.

TriMet Takedown

A blogger who persisted in asking questions that the development agency doesn't like has been arrested by TriMet transit cops
and had his laptop and cell phone confiscated. His "crime"? Demanding
answers from the agency in the days following the shooting death of a
boy at a light rail platform. TriMet PR chicks refused to respond to his
questions regarding transit safety, and so he programmed his SMS to
text one of them repeatedly. Apparently, as far as the TriMet
development agency is concerned, that's a crime meriting physical
detention and confiscation of the blogger's electronics.
It's bogus on many fronts: no threats were made; a question was
texted repeatedly (and automatically). Was the blogger being a jerk?
Possibly, but that's not a crime. TriMet's head mouthpiece, Mary Fetsch,
falls back upon a claim often deployed by Democratics who don't want to
answer questions: "A blogger is not a "real" journalist."
Sorry, Mary, but that's not your call.
These folks think that they can dictate every aspect of everybody's
lives, and it's time to take them down a few notches. Personally, I
advocate cutting them off at the ankles. They really stepped in it this
time.

That another thing Lane has
been useful in helping us all to remember - these people are "Officials"
of a supposed "Public Service". ORS 267 tacitly allows TriMet to act
as a private transportation company that has no direct accountability
to, or transparency for the people of this community. None of its Board
of Directors or top officers are elected, or in any other way held to
account except through the media, and particularly alternative press
like Rantings, Portland Afoot, and Portland Transit Lane. If TriMet is
also allowed to define who is a journalist, then they control their
propaganda in the corporate media.

Trimet co-workers: There's a file in your personnel records called
ERC. It's a list of comments and interactions with Supervisors. You
have to go through public records then pay a fee. Mine was $19.23. Kinda
a bullshit thing right there having to pay for yer own file.
Nevertheless, I suggest everyone get a copy, make sure you're sitting
down, have a bottle of booze or some good sedatives handy. I don't
drink anymore but did do in a chocolate bar. :) My guess is they're
counting on the fact we won't know of it's existence so they say some
pretty horrendous things, things that aren't true, conversations that
never happened. TRIMET CO-WORKERS - 'ERC' HISTORYBullying and Corporate Psychopaths at Work

It's all in the management stupid. Bad management leads to poor performance by the people that actually to do the work. I've been gone from there going on 2 years now and have heard that things have actually gotten worse since I left. When I left there I didn't think things could get much worse, I was wrong apparently.

8 Surefire Ways to Demotivate Your Employees

While the talking heads babble their nonsense people have been suffering severe abuse at the hands of Portland's transit system. It goes on day after day yet the power brokers are blind to the suffering they are causing.

Hello faithful blog readers.
After some serious thought and soul searching, I have come to the
conclusion that this blog may not be the best course of action anymore.
From this point forward, there will be no more blog posts for an
undetermined amount of time. I may come back, I may not. After my recent
arrest and latest garbage of a plea deal, there are more pressing
matters to take care of. Please check out Transit Rider PDX’s blog in my absence.
Thank you for your loyalty through the last 13 months. It’s been a
roller coaster, that’s for sure! If I will not be coming back, I will
post one final farewell post.
With much love,
Lane JensenPortland Transit Lane

The driver asked the two questions he's supposed to under federal law:
Is that a service animal? (The man said yes.) And, What service does
that animal provide? When the man wouldn't provide an answer to the
second question, he and his iguana weren't allowed to board the bus,
according to C-Tran.

Take out the 'art' at Gresham and everything will be OK according the the brain trust that exists at Trimet headquarters. What did they spend on this? $25k I believe. Wouldn't it make a tiny bit more sense to actually have some sort of security present at some of the more widely used Transit centers like the one at Gresham? Even 7-11 stores hire 24 hour security guards, 'real' transit cities have 'station agents' keeping an eye on things at major stations including dealing with ticket machine problems, but here in the Trimetlandia, their answer is to take out the fake living room. They just don't have a clue.

But, geez. Taking a few years and giving us a bus that kind of apologizes sheepishly for making turn? Not good enough.
And, more importantly, do you think that someone whose name sounds like “Hairy Supporter” took any crap in 7th grade P.E. class? Yeah, me too.
TriMet has a few types of talking bus systems they’re going to test. They’re all BORING AS HELL.

Lane has never sent one threatening voice message, text message, or email to any Trimet manager ever and the fact that Trimet is attempting to paint Lane as some sort of threat here proves the set up.They are so low to use this nonsense to prohibit him from attending board meetings. He's out watch-dogging these people and asking questions. I hope this goes to trial so we can get some of these 'scared' characters up on the witness stand. Trimet executives will crawl around in the mud like a snake if they can get their way. They are doing this to their union employees and now they are slithering to new lows with Lane Jensen.

He is very optimistic to say the least. I still maintain the service cuts from last year were not necessary and Mr Mcfarlane should not be congratulated for creating and then solving the crisis that he and his staff caused.

Which is one of the reasons that we have lost so much bus service. Trimet subsidizes that freaking thing. It's basically a PSU shuttle, let them pay for it. Funny that there is nothing posted at the PIN HEADS site about this dispute. Specialty transit at the expense of essential transit. Portlandia.

I've heard so many instances of people ignoring exclusion and fare evasion orders I decided to do some investigating in regards to penalties for these repeat offenders. I got an attorney to look into this for me.I have noticed multiple repeat offenders that are supposedly excluded
from the transit system in Portland Oregon get caught on the system
during their exclusion. I can't find the penalty for ignoring transit
fines and interdiction commands. Are those penalties listed somewhere?
Can you serve real time in jail for ignoring transit fines and
exclusions?

Assuming someone has been validly
excluded by Trimet (including service of a notice of exclusion with a
right to a hearing to challenge the exclusion), a person could
potentially be charged with the crime of trespass, which is a
misdemeanor. Depending on criminal history, the circumstances of the
particular case, and bad luck, someone could be sentenced to serve some
jail time for trespass (although most trespass cases in Portland do not
involve jail time). The trespass statutes are in Oregon Revised
Statutes chapter 164, if you want more information on this.
Good luck!

Saturday, October 26, 2013

We in scanner headquarters tweeted the MAX disruption almost an entire hour before the billion dollar public agency. Nobody pays attention to the scanner account however, poor fools get late information.

Neil Mcfarlane who illegally seized $6 million in wages from his union employees and has ignored two court orders to return it while using tax funds to fight the legal order of the court. Neil Mcfarlane who raided the Trimet treasury for himself and his cronies at the exact same time he raised fares and cut service to the riders of the Portland Area and decided he didn't need to tell anyone other than his secret complicit board?

Neil Mcfarlane has power and connections and doesn't answer to laws

Lane Jensen who's crime was sending the following message to Trimet managers over and over:"So what is it going to take to get more safety on buses, how many lives will it take? 1, 10, 100, 1000? A bus driver being killed in the seat? Huh?"

Lane Jensen never stole any money and never defied court orders. He has no contacts and no power

Trimet is running this huge slick 1st class propaganda campaign around naming the new bridge.But the final decision is by one man? The Trimet General Manager Neil Mcfarlane?This entire public process all boils down to one man, I can't even believe that.At the very least shouldn't the board make that final decision? I can't believe this shit.

Final names forwarded by committee to TriMet general manager
Spring 2014

Which is also known as 'transit oriented development' and its almost a religion in the Portland area. Although Portland likes to think of itself as thinking this up its actually thought up by some much bigger central planners than we have here in the peoples republic of Portlandia. The money to pull off this grand design all comes from big daddy the federal government so that should give you some idea of the type of top policy makers that are involved with this.

Basically here is the idea, you "pack em" into vehicles that can pack as many humans as possible into it.

Light rail fits the bill for the 'pack em' philosophy since buses cant pack as many humans into a small space as a light rail vehicle can. Light rail is accomplished using eminent domain power of the government demolishing whatever is in its way.

The you "stack them" into these types of properties that are developed along these rail lines. Here in Portland most of the properties that have been developed in NW Portland were homes before the were demolished by developers. Developers who by the way make a tidy fortune in this process.

Big long rows of these types of buildings fit the 'stack em' scheme of transit oriented development.

After all this is accomplished multiple fortunes are made by those involved with the construction, and there is plenty of construction contracts with nice profit margins built into them for the principals.

PACK EM AND STACK EM!

And there will be places like Wal-Mart on the rail lines for the human cattle to work, its all about herding the humans
into places to work and live

Trimet was going to do this several years ago. Jerri Ellsworth, an electrical engineer, did this great production about the talking bus and what a huge waste of money it is. Notice how the price per talking bus has gone substantially higher than when Jerri made this video

The forums will include a presentation on TriMet’s current equity
policies, including the Major Service Change Policy, Disparate Impact
Policy, Disproportionate Burden Policy (what in the world is this)and System-wide Performance
Standards and Policies.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

And on October 17th he was arrested. In this interview he explains what he is doing and why he is doing it. So I put it to you, was Lane's actions intentional harassment or unintentional stupidity brought on by ignorance of the law.

“The tragedy of two deaths in the San Francisco
BART strike has its origins in the same management attitudes we see
demonstrated by TriMet’s top level management,” says Bruce Hansen,
president of the Amalgamated Transit Union. He’s referring to the death
of two BART workers, struck by a train being operated by a manager
driving during a labor strike. The BART workers were on strike primarily
because of work rule changes, benefit takeaways and safety issues. That
strike ended last night when the company and the union reached a
tentative agreement.

The
strike happened because BART’s management team proposed many changes in
work rules and employee benefits. Just like TriMet, the management team
contended that the transit agency’s workers held relatively unskilled
positions, were overpaid, and did not deserve their benefits. “When I
read BART’s public relations push, I thought I was reading a Portland
newspaper,” says Hansen.